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    Quote Originally Posted by zeake View Post
    I forgot about the same idiots that want to successfully launch a rap career. H***y please you are not M&M. I had one idiot try to give me a hard time once at work. I told him to get a job. He said "I got a job I am a Rapper." I laughed loud and hard right in his face.
    Not to be a grammar Nazi (actually that is exactly what I am doing), but it is Eminem, not M&M. Eminem (often styled "EMINƎM") is the stage name for the rapper named Marshall Mathers. An M&M is a chocolate candy. If you were, in fact, referring to the candy then the sentence should read "... please, you are not an M&M." (notice the added comma as well)

    had to get my jab in as well

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    Quote Originally Posted by MKader17 View Post
    Not to be a grammar Nazi (actually that is exactly what I am doing), but it is Eminem, not M&M. Eminem (often styled "EMINƎM") is the stage name for the rapper named Marshall Mathers. An M&M is a chocolate candy. If you were, in fact, referring to the candy then the sentence should read "... please, you are not an M&M." (notice the added comma as well)

    had to get my jab in as well
    You knew who I was referring to. I also do that as an insult to the idiot Marshall Mathers.
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    Since we're on the topic of grammer, i have been reading some build threads and noticed something that is often overlooked. when typing/writing quantities and sizes together, the best way to write this is if you use words for quantities and numbers for sizes. For example:
    I unbolted the four 1/2 in bolts.
    I unbolted the 4 1/2in bolts.

    the first sentence says a quantity of four and a size of one half while the latter can be seen as a size of four and one half.

    Another notation is:
    I unbolted the four(4) 1/2in bolts

    its not necessary but it helps with clarification. Just throwing it out there.
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